A failed piece of Orientalism has become the proud symbol of a community.

Where the famed frontiersman was born, raised, and survived Quaker intrigue

A well-preserved example of an early industrial operation in the northeastern United States.

A modern ghost town whose inhabitants were driven away by the growth of nuclear power.

Legend says this sacred tree was a gift from goddess Athena.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

This elaborate towering structure was once famed for its revolutionary height.

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Philadelphia boasts one of the best — and most often overlooked — traditional Japanese gardens in North America.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

Pop culture has helped to keep this iconic British building from being destroyed.

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

After nearly 60 years, there's still a bear at Paddington Station looking for help.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

A converted hangar displays dozens of helicopters, from a famous 1943 rescue chopper to several autogyros.

This historic old movie house was the scene of one of the Blob's most iconic attacks.

A beloved horticultural oasis on the grounds of a wealthy family's former estate.

This palatial botanical garden is home to one of the largest pipe organs ever installed in a private residence, and a piece of Wood's cycad.

This might just be the TARDIS of bookstores.